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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rebarbative /rɪˈbɑːbətɪv/

▶adjective formal unattractive and objectionable.

– origin C19: from Fr. rébarbatif, -ive, from OFr. se rebarber ‘face each other aggressively’ (lit. ‘beard to beard’), from barbe ‘beard’.

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